Porky and Buddy
Community

Porky and Buddy Pet Health – Let Your Voices Be Heard

Continuing on about making 2018 the Year of Kindness, another purpose of this column is to provide animal lovers with information about upcoming legislation, good or bad, that affects animals. Because sometimes you just have to make people do what is right or make them stop doing what is wrong. You need to be heard on these legislative initiatives and the very best way to make yourself heard is to simply call your local legislator.

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Fred
Community

Pet of the Week – Fred

He was rescued from under a trailer out in the country after his elderly owner had to go to a nursing home. You would think he had been a pampered house cat his whole life (well except for his bunged up ear, probably from being attacked by an animal or maybe frost bite.) He is a sturdy handsome Tuxedo who loves people, complete strangers even.

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Porky and Buddy
Community

Porky and Buddy Pet Health – Keep the Year of Kindness Going

Continuing on about making 2018 the Year of Kindness, part of the point of this column is to provide guidance and advice to pet owners about their own pets and their responsibilities toward them. We know, because we see it every day, that sometimes, no matter how much you love your pets, you may have to make the hard choice to give them up. Maybe you lost your job, or your house, or you have a sudden illness in the family, or someone in the family develops a serious allergy.

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Porky and Buddy
Oswego Daily News

Porky and Buddy Pet Health – Protect Animals From The Cold

Continuing on from last week’s column about the story of Jack in the Box and making 2018 the Year of Kindness, we had planned to tell you today about how the Oswego County Humane Society can help when you have a pet that needs a home and you think you may have run out of options. And we will get to that eventually, but today, in light of the weather, we want to talk about the issue of apparently homeless pets out in the cold. We all know that cold like we are experiencing now can kill animals. So we are asking all of you to do the right thing.

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Porky and Buddy
Community

Porky and Buddy Pet Health – Make Oswego County A Better Place For All Animals.

You may have read the recent Pet of the Week column about Jack in the Box or maybe you saw it on Facebook or received an email from the Oswego County Humane Society. They told you about Jack, the cat taped up in a box and left by the side of the road on a frigid December day. Luckily, he was rescued by some kind-hearted strangers who took him for vet care and he is fine now at the Humane Society and hoping to find a new safe home. But we have been thinking about Jack ever since then and the level of cruelty that he was exposed to.

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Emily
Community

Pet of the Week – Emily

Emily has a New Year’s resolution, she’s going to get on the treadmill and lose some weight! Seriously, she has been with us for more than two months now and we think she is bored. She definitely enjoys sitting in the window. She plays when you put a toy right in front of her. But, she’s not a fast cat and she is surely not hyper.

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Porky and Buddy
Oswego Daily News

Porky and Buddy Pet Health – New Year’s Resolutions From Pets’ Perspective

It’s that time of year again when people start thinking, however reluctantly, about the new year and whether they should be making New Year’s Resolutions. As a general rule, we have no opinion about whether you should join a gym or eat less or read more, because, to be honest, none of that affects us. But here is what you could do that we heartily endorse . . .

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No Picture
Pet Health

Reminder: It’s Cold Outside – Keep Your Pets Warm

Section 353-b of the New York Agriculture & Markets Law requires that if your dog spends any time outdoors, you must provide shelter to protect the dog from direct sunlight, rain, snow, wind, cold weather, hot weather, and other inclement conditions. The shelter must be waterproof, appropriately insulated, and it must allow the dog to move around freely.

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